The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

the Gardner-Hunt Case in Atlanta.
GEORGIA
Edgewood has a cat that will not eat
meat
Marion Superior Court is in session at
at Buena Vista.
The residence occupied by A j. PRESLEY,
at Dawson. the property of the estate Of j Z.
Loyless, was entirely destroyed by fire
Monday morning. about O'Clock. The loss
is estimated at $500 with no Insurance..
At Waynesboro, Walter Chandler last
week, while careless Y handling pistol shot
himself The wound at first was thought TO
be serious. but Or. Oliver after a careful
examination pronounced favorable
opinion
An additional room l0Oxl7 feet is being
erected for the chair factory at Osoorn's
shop at Griffin. The firm expects to make
5000 chairs this year instead Of the 5O,OOO
at first contemplated, and have orders for
many more.
Superintendent Hartman, Of Rolf Home,
Macon, has presented Mrs Davis pair Of
his fine Berkshire pigs. While at the fair
Mrs Davis admired Mr.. Harman's display
of Berkshires. and accepted his offer to send
pair 10 Beauvoir.
Mrs. T. F. Smith, of Brunswick, has a
curiosity in the shape OF a cedar bush grow
ing out of a solid piece OF LINE stone rock
The rock was simply living on the ground,
not imbedded at all The bush is A. green
as if it was growing in the natural soil.
Robert Shelly 'coloreii was seriously in
iured by the train between Dawson and
Bronwood on Saturday morning, about 3
O'Clock. II Is supposed thai he was knocked
off by the cowCatCher. He has a serious
wound on the side Of his head and another
acres the small OF his back. The doctors
have hope of his recovery.
At Atlanta. Monday, the Superior Court
granted charter to the Gate City Coffin
Company. The incorporstors are W. c.
Rawson, c. Z Boynton and f. E. Rawson
and the capital stock Is $4,000 with the
privilege OF increasing it TO $4,000. The
company proposes 10 manufacture all kinds
of burial csskets and 10 supply the Southern
trade. Operations will begin at an early
day.
At Byron Monday Master Freddie War
rem. the 17-year-old son Of T. D. Warren,
had an epileptic fit and fell in the fire. HIS
head and face were burned toa crisp and he
expired in few minutes after the family
reached the room where he lay. The FAM
" were at the breakfast table at the time
and Freddie, who had been out in the lot
attending 20 the stock, went into room 70
warm before joining the family at break
fast.
Monday ". A Poe of Macon received a
letter from J. B. Turner, an old veteran
living at Providence Fla, saying that he
was in one Of the Georgia regiments Of cav
airy, had crossed the Potomac five times,
and lost leg at Gettysburg he was in
vited TO come 70 the reunion but wanted a
badge. Out of the s. 900 old veteran bad
ges printed by the committe over 500 re
main Any old veteran can secure one by
enclosing stamp 20 G. NJ Davis.
Robert Bryce, OF Brunswick. was last
week over the river nsar Fancy Bluff
prospecting for phosphates. Whilst walking
along the road he came upon several dogs,
who suddenly conceived violent dislike for
him and rushed upon him, infiicting serious
wounds in his legs. Mr.. Piles, happening in
reach. rushed up and drove of the dogs.
Had Mr. Bryce fallen in the melee he would
no doubt have been seized by the throat and
seriously injured As 1t Is he Is badly hurt.
and will be confined TO his room for several
DAYS
When the train from Atlanta reached
Evansville Monday night, the depot was
brilliantly lighted and half the population
Of the town was congrsgated on the spot.
The occasion OF the demonstration was a
fire in the cotton stored on the wharf The
fire was discovered in the cotton about
O'Clock. The alarm was given and an en-
CINE was soon there and the firemen at
work. At 8 O'Clock the flames were confined
TO about a dozen bales Of the staple which
were piled up apart from the hundreds Of
other bales which afforded standing room
when the Central passed for apparently as
many people.
Last Saturday VIII Whitley, of Gibson,
saw ground squirrel jumping about in
tree, and took up notion TO climb after Il.
The result was the boy beat the squirrel at
mis- own game, or Whatever you may call it,
He actually tired the squirrel so that he
caught il after lively chase from one tree
TO another. There may have been something
the matter with the squirrel, or it may have
been tame one which had strayed of, but
according TO accounts the capture was as
hard to make as If the squirrel was really a
healthy and wild one. This is the same boy
that killed convey of partridges with one
shot from gun.
A letter written by Tom Voolfolk, the
Bib county murderer to Solicitor Harde-
man on Oct. 10 is a curiosity. He saws he
is an honorable man and should be acquit-
ted. On his acquittal he will pay the Solici-
tor 81 600 if fair and impartial trial is
given him. He also wants permission to
walk the corridors with the other prisoners
He SAYS he is the only one Of about seventy
or eighty prisoners who is not allowed this
privilege Jailer Btrdsong, he says, gave
orders that he should be kept in a cell all
the time. He believes that the Solicitor can
get him the privileges; if not for his own
sake, for the sake of his father.
Little Billy Rountree a son of J. r. Roun-
tree, happened to terrible accident at
Swainsboro few days ago, while work
ing around his fathers gin. He was clean
ing the notes away from the gin, and while
SO engaged, the gin caught his coat and
pulled him in, and before he could he gotten
away, his right arm was horribly lacerated,
and he received several wounds elsewhere.
His father and uncle Wash was standing
near, and Immediately rescued him, or he
would have been killed. The doctors who
attended him, found it necessary to take off
his right hand in order to save his arm. He
bore it manfully, and is getting along well,
under the circumstances.
The Comptroller General is getting
anxious about the State taxes. His anxiety
does not arise from the mere question of the
taxes, but from the fact that they are not
coming into the Treasury. The payment Of
the interest on the public debt during the
summer, the payment of the heavy appro-
priations, the warrants for the civil
establishment and the expense at
taching to a protracted session of the
Legislature have been heavy drains
on the public purse, and the Treasury
is in need of money. 1t has been some two
months since the taxes were due. and tax
collectors have been urged to press collec-
tons and make remittances, and yet money
sa -, ole